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klapaucjusz writes:
The EFF has released an experimental router firmware designed make it easy to deploy open (password-less) access points in a secure manner. The EFF's firmware is based on the CeroWRT fork of OpenWRT, but appears to remove some of its more advanced routing features.
The EFF is asking for help to further develop the firmware. They want the open access point to co-exist on the same router as your typical private and secured access point. They want the owner to be able to share bandwidth, but with a cap, so guests don't degrade service for the owner. They're also looking to develop a network queueing, a minimalist web UI, and an auto-update mechanism. The EFF has also released the beta version of a plug-in called Privacy Badger for Firefox and Chrome that will prevent online advertisers from tracking you.

we have freifunk. They develop such software. It also bypass the so called "störerhaftung" (disturber liablility), which makes people liable for anyone that used their hotspot as long as they cannot prove they secured their wifi as much as they could.

Buffalo Routers that run DD-WRT please! I'm sorry I don't have time to do the port...

Yes,From the EFF page..

'..Currently the software runs on one specific model of hardware (the Netgear WNDR3800)..'

from the Cerowrt page..

'..To minimize the effects of hardware dependencies, we have chosen the Netgear WNDR3700v2 or WNDR3800 as the sole hardware for the experiments. Note: The WNDR3700v3 and v4 models that have recently appeared on the market do not work with CeroWrt; purchase the WNDR3800 if you want to be future-proof...

Quick check on the WNDR3800, it's been EOL'd by Netgear, and isn't that

I'm sorry but Buffalo routers are fscking GARBAGE. I've purchased god-knows-how-many routers for clients and myself and I bought into the hype about how Buffalo routers are so wonderful and they run DD-WRT and they aren't like other brands. BULLSH!T. They are crippled by weak azz wifi and no matter how many times I factory reset (60, 60, 60) the settings from my previous configuration persist. Called their "tech support" line and was told that the features that I PAID FOR were unsupported and that they were

The 'fraud squad' already contacted me about credit card skimming traced to our home internet, whereby someone had hacked our wifi in a drive-by usage. They suggested we change our password but you wonder how secure WPA2 is anyway...

The local ISP, Telstra, is said to soon be trialling nationwide 'free wifi' to ADSL2 customers by offering a free modem with segregated wifi. So I wonder what firmware they plan to use.

Exactly. There is WAY too much free wifi access in the US for anyone but the most paranoid to think that open wifi would be anything but plausible deniability in the case that someone did get onto your router.

If the EFF wanted to be really cool they could make their router firmware set up a transparent proxy so that the anonymous users are routed onto the TOR network. Their Internet access would be slower, but it couldn't be traced to the owner of the router. Also, increasing the size of the TOR network would increase the amount of anonymity it offered.

So if you're sharing your wi-fi with the public at large and someone commits an "Internet Nasty" while connected via your router - who is criminally liable?

Who's liable when they roll into the parking lot of the local Best Western and do the same thing?

Making it public is what makes you immune. If it's not public, then you're verifying that all activity from your IP is your own. Making your connection free for others to use re-anonymizes your IP address.

Making it public is what makes you immune. If it's not public, then you're verifying that all activity from your IP is your own. Making your connection free for others to use re-anonymizes your IP address.

Firstly, running an open wifi point would be against my TOSSecondly, being in breach of point the first, the police would then turn your argument round on it's head...running a public access point sir?, must be trying to bury your illegal traffic in amongst everyone else's..You're fuckin' nicked, me old beauty!

immunity my arse...you do realise that the upstream monitoring logs and classification of the traffic which led them to you in the first instance will then be produced in a court of law against you,

Other than reduced availability for sale I don't think being end of life should really matter you would not get support from netgear on a custom firmware.

This isn't about Netgear support, the point is that by choosing a target system that you can now only get on the used market (and, from my cursory check this morning, it isn't exactly a common model you see coming up regularly, at least, here) they've (EFF) immediately scored an own-goal by putting off people who might want to try this out by making an apparently stupid choice of base distro and target hardware.

A quick check of the spare routers I have currently doing nothing, Linksys, d-link, trend, tp-lin